Domestic Surveillance and Covert Action

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:43:59 -0800 (PST)

Irvine -- In the wake of earlier abuses of our First Amendment rights
to
protest, domestic surveillance in the U.S. was thought to have been
outlawed
some three decades ago. Today, the President boldy claims he has a
legal right
to spy on Americans. Is that so?

KUCI's Subversity, a public affairs show, delves into the issue of
covert
action and domestic surveillance with an investigative journalist who
has
tracked state covert action for decades, and a lawyer who has been
active in
the defense of civil liberties in national security cases.

On our show slated for Monday, January 23 from 9-10 a.m. Pacific time,
on KUCI,
88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is webcast simultaneously via
kuci.org.

Show host Dan Tsang, himself an earlier target of CIA spying, chats
with Louis
Wolf, a founder of Covert Action Quarterly, and Brittany Benowitz. a
lawyer
who's an Equal Justice Works fellow with the Center for National
Security
Studies, a non-profit advocacy group that works to p$event excessive
government
secrecy, assure effective oversight of intelligence agencies, protect
the right
of political dissent and prevent illegal government surveillance.
Tsang's
successful 1990s ACLU lawsuit against the CIA uncovered CIA domestic
surveillance on an American citizen despite assurances on the CIA's web
site to
the contrary. (Full disclosure: Tsang compiled an index to the first
12 issues
of Covert Action Information Bulletin, the earlier permutation of CAQ,
and has
in the past been a contributor to the magazine.)

Wolf was also co-editor of Dirty Work and Dirty Work 2, two volumes
exposing
CIA covert action abroad. Before attending law school, Benowitz worked
for an
activist group investigating psychiatric abuse in Latin America and
Eastern
Europe.